“To think is to say no. Note that the sign for yes is that of a person falling asleep; while to wake up is to shake the head and say no.”
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Alain
Émile-Auguste Chartier, commonly known as Alain, was a French philosopher, journalist, essayist, pacifist, and teacher of philosophy.
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culture · French philosopher (1868–1951) · philosopher · writer · journalist · teacher · also Alain, Alain (philosopher), Émile Auguste Chartier, Emile Auguste Chartier, Émile Chartier
Born 3 March 1868 · Died 2 June 1951 · Q275003
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
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1951· 17 entries
Awarded Grand prix national des Lettres (1951).
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Died 1951-06-02.
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“O pensamento só se respeita a si próprio.”
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“A palavrinha «farei» tem perdido impérios. O futuro só tem sentido na ponta da ferramenta.”
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“No que é fácil crer, não vale a pena crer.”
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“É preciso querer ser feliz e contribuir para isso. Se ficarmos na posição do espectador impassível, deixando para a felicidade apenas a entrada livre e as portas abertas, será a tristeza que entrará.”
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“O erro de Descartes é de qualidade superior à da verdade de um pedante.”
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“O ensino deve ser decididamente retardatário.”
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“Da infância direi pouco, pois ela não passou de uma estupidez.”
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“Nenhum possível é belo; apenas o real é belo.”
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“A vida é um trabalho que se deve fazer de pé.”
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“Quanto melhor se enche a vida, menos se tem medo de perdê-la.”
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“O trabalho é a melhor e a pior das coisas: a melhor, se for livre; a pior, se for escravo.”
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“On prouve tout ce qu'on veut, et la vraie difficulté est de savoir ce qu'on veut prouver.”
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“Amar é descobrirmos a nossa riqueza fora de nós.”
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“Desordem no corpo, erro no espírito, uma coisa alimentando a outra, eis o real da imaginação.”
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“São as paixões e não os interesses que mandam no mundo”
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1938· 1 entry
“I would like to rid myself of anti-Semitism, but I can’t achieve this.”
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1934· 2 entries
Was a co-founder of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes (CVIA)
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Came a second major work, on religion, Les Dieux (translated as The Gods), followed two years later by his intellectual autobiography, Histoire de mes pensées
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1921· 1 entry
And continued until 1936, to make a total of around five thousand
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1916· 1 entry
His ankle was crushed in the wheel of a cart carrying munitions to Verdun
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1906· 1 entry
And after his move to Paris, Alain made writing these a daily commitment and one he continued right up to the outbreak of the First World War
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1903· 1 entry
As part of his political activity in support of the Radical Party in Rouen, he began contributing brief columns to the party's newspaper, La Depêche de Rouen et de Normandie
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1889· 1 entry
And to the agrégation in philosophy in 1892
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1881· 1 entry
Entered the lycée of Alençon, where he passed the examinations of the baccalauréat in literature (and failed the science baccalaureat)
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1868· 2 entries
Born 1868-03-03.
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In the rural town of Mortagne-au-Perche, Normandy, the son of a veterinary surgeon
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